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The Wounds Of Love
04:38
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THE WOUNDS OF LOVE
Jack beware the three-card-trick
Jack jump over that border quick
Another wall, another brick
A twenty bill buys a blue light hit
We don’t need no procrastination
I’m just putting it down to bad decisions
Strange, foggy day
I was out of my mind
And I needed a friend
My own garden
(The wounds of love)
Is my own garden
(The wounds of love)
And my own garden is your garden now
Playing with life like a game of chess
Getting it together like a flat-pack desk
Doing it wrong or doing it right
Working out the puzzle in a different light
I still haven’t found what this piece is for
Just dancing with you on the Mexican wall
Did we meet there
Right on the edge?
At 12:51
On the ha’penny bridge
My own garden
(The wounds of love)
Is my own garden
(The wounds of love)
And my own garden is your garden now
How you gonna feel?
The wounds of love
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2. |
Happy As Larry
02:57
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HAPPY AS LARRY
She is perfectly still,
Proud and lonely stands on the window sill.
Rose and Crown Society of the Lady Biker Team
Trophy for the last one drinking
Rose and Crown Society of the Lady Biker Team
Trophy for the last one standing
As the dawn crept in.
She is taking it in.
Six-pack Sandra winces at the sight of him
Rose and Crown Society of the Lady Biker Team
Trophy for the last one standing
Rose and Crown Society of the Lady Biker Team
Trophy for the last one drinking
Who since moved away.
Where, no-one could say.
He is holding it in.
The figure cast in bronze just makes him think of them.
Rose and Crown Society of the Lady Biker Team
Trophy for the last one drinking
Rose and Crown Society of the Lady Biker Team
Won’t be won by my love transitioning.
As she moved close to him.
As she moved close to him.
There is a happy, happy land.
This is a happy, happy land.
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3. |
Pas Devant Les Enfants
03:35
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PAS DEVANT LES ENFANTS
Pas devant les enfants
On and on and on it goes, only heaven knows
Pas devant les enfants
Hide it in the undergrowth and sow your seeds in tidy rows
Your name will be taken from you
“Bunny Livingston I presume”
And they led us on a merry dance
Only ever gave us half a chance
All the cold and wind that travelled south
No it couldn’t keep the bad ones out
Pas devant les enfants
Green grow the rushes o
Tell them what you know
Pas devant les enfants
Sing it from the grassy knoll
Or throw it down the memory hole
It’s time to claim the words we lost
Take them from the Devil on the cross
And they led us on a merry dance
Only ever gave us half a chance
All the cold and wind that travelled south
Couldn’t ever keep the bad ones out
In the babbling brook
Take another close look
Oiché va
Hanhepi wašté
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4. |
End Of The Summertime
03:50
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END OF THE SUMMERTIME
End of the summer
I’m going under cover again
Out of the rain and
Into your arms
Into the place
I’ll never be the same
I’m going out in the rain again
I used to be so tough but now I am just so afraid
I’ll never be the same
End of the summertime
End of the summertime
End of the summertime
And it only just began
Since my mind left me
Since my mind left
I found a new place, new place to dwell
It’s down on the left
By M and S
In a nighty in the cold
I’m going out in the rain again
I was the life and soul but now I am just so alone
So alone
End of the summertime
End of the summertime
End of the summertime
Can’t we just go back?
End of the summertime
End of the summertime
End of the summertime
And they’ll all be out tonight
There aint no cure for the summertime blues
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5. |
Every Cross To Bear
02:52
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EVERY CROSS TO BEAR
When it comes down to it
There is nowhere safe to go
You’re telling me, oh no!
Any way you slice it
Every pound you blow
We have hit a new low
The sunlight in the apple trees
The blossom in the brook
Loving you took just one tender look
Oh me, oh my!
Hi! Hi! Hi!
Cross that we bear
And I don’t say this lightly
And I don’t mean offence
All the goodwill’s been spent
You can keep all your wisdom
And I’ll cling on to mine
We will have the best time
The slow worm and the nightingale
The snowdrops pressed in books
Loving you took just one fleeting look
Oh me, oh my!
Hi! Hi! Hi!
Cross that we bear
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I WANT TO SEE YOUR NAME IN LIGHTS
Working out the journey we’ve been on,
Sometimes got it right and sometimes wrong.
Let’s just dance, when we’re in the mood we could
It’s alright, I’ll show you the moves, they’re good
It’s all we’ve got so,
I will be there, trying to see what gives
A wing, a prayer. Finding out what sticks.
I want to see it in lights (where we need to go, we’ll all be there)
I want to see it in lights
I want to see your
I want to see your name in lights.
When we’re on the cusp of something good.
You just smile and that tells me we should.
Can’t you see? Just how far we’ve come, it’s long.
Have a look, it’s all a bit of fun, what’s wrong?
It’s all that’s left now
I will be there trying to see what gives
A wing, a prayer. Finding out what sticks.
I want to see it in lights (where we need to go, we’ll all be there)
I want to see it in lights
I want to see your
I want to see your name in lights.
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7. |
Sad Face
05:00
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SAD FACE
They’re playing sad songs all week on the radio
For all the lost and the lonely and the wretched.
And it did wonders for the women and the gays
So they’re rolling it out across the airwaves.
But when the choppers were circling the streets
And you, naked and raging in the cooling heat.
Your friends all turned away
With affected concern and dismay
And you howled through your pain by night and by day.
Look at the
Sad Face, sad face
What you doing round this place?
One solitary tear
We needed so much more.
Sad Face, sad face
You’ve got no business in this place
Run along will you please
And take your sad face away from me.
This is the day your life will surely change
This is the day your life spins out of range.
Scrawling your truths on your arm with a bookies pen
Never got you a goddamn thing!
Look out! The tagline read
“We’re sorry”
And “this time, you’re on your own kid from now on”
And William Wallace has got nothing on you
Oh but on this freezing night, neither do you
Look at the
Sad Face, sad face
What you doing round this place?
One crocodile tear
We needed so much more.
Sad Face, sad face
You’ve got no business in this place
Run along will you please,
I’m down on one wounded knee.
Run along will you please and take your sad face away from me.
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8. |
The Pike
03:35
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THE PIKE
See! In the stream
Yellow, gold and glowing in the green
There! Near the reeds
Into life and into death is free
How I wish that pike there was me
Had to hold my breath to hold it still
Keep dragging, keep dragging
Every ounce of courage and of will
Keep dragging, keep dragging
‘Wait!’ What comes next,
When those fish have hunted all that’s left
Turn against each other to the death
Had to hold my ground to hold it still
Keep dragging, keep dragging
Looked at me said ‘Who will make a kill?’
Keep dragging, keep dragging
Felt a shiver down my spine
I felt myself run out of time
I looked at death he looked at me
I let him go just in time to see
Well you can say what you like, say what you like it’s a pike
Well you can say what you like, say what you like it’s a pike
Well you can say what you like, say what you like I’m the pike
Well you can say what you like, say what you like I’m the pike
Take a bite
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9. |
Now You Know
02:41
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NOW YOU KNOW
And you’re reaching for your bag and your checking all your things
And you’re screwing up your face thinking what the day will bring
And you’re slowing down the pace and you’re choking back all your tears
And I’m wondering
‘Now you know that you’re alone how will you know
Will you know what takes you home?”’
And I’m holding tight your hand for the panic in your eyes
And I’m promising the world and it’s all a pack of lies
And I’m quickening up the pace and I’m singing a hollow tune and the song goes:
‘Now you know that you’re alone you need to show
Need to show, show you know the way back home’
Why do they have to leave?
Leave me in this place I said I didn’t want to go?
Don’t they know that
I don’t know all the rules?
Feeling all confused about these faces coming close
And you’re reaching in your bag and your gathering all your things
And you’re trying to find the words to say what the night may bring
And you’re slowing down the pace and you’re choking back all your tears
And you’re whispering ‘Now I know I’m all alone I’ll need to grow
Need to grow, need to grow to make it home
To make it home.
I’ve always known we’re on our own.
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EVERYBODY SAYS THEY LOVE YOU
I’m swimming, you’re swimming, we’re swimming
Swimming in the sea.
Barbara was there,
Let you fix her hair and she’ll do yours.
I’m living, you’re living, we’re living,
Living in a dream
Think about when you swam out to me
I’m just a squid, a squid in the ocean
Dragging the air, the air with my hand
Never had the vaguest notion
Seemed to me so far, so far from my dad
Everybody says they love you, everyone it’s true
We all think the world of you
Everybody says they love you, though it may be true
Everyone around but you
Thinking about when you reached down to me
Thinking about when you called out to me
Talking on the bunk beds
Up and down all night
Ordering the food that we like
He’s going away in a matter of days
Soon Everything will have changed
Everybody says they love you, everyone it’s true
We all think the world of you
Everybody says they love you, though it may be true
Everyone around, no-one made a sound
Everyone around but you
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11. |
What's Jesus For?
02:46
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WHAT’S JESUS FOR?
“What’s Jesus for?” cried the lad at the door
“Can you picture him anywhere here?”
So he smashed all the glasses and swore through the darkness
For the anger, the pain and the fear.
“Take it or leave it
You’d better believe it”
Said the man to his tonic and gin.
“Never mind liturgies, bibles or rosaries,
Just turn the other cheek, son, and you’ve won.”
“Give us a kiss”
Sobbed the girl who was pissed
From the moment she woke til the dawn.
But she’d burned all her bridges and blown all her wages
And her feller was over her now.
““Take it or leave it
The Son and the Spirit for that’s not what counts in the end
Come on love, let’s get home.”
Said her mate down the road
“You should learn to take care of yourself.”
And we wanted to know
And we wanted to find
All we wanted is to feel
And we wanted to feel
More peace.
Take it or leave it
Just look for your better bit
Everything else will come good.
The only power on this earth
Is to see what we’re worth.
That’s what I think he’s for
Since you ask.”
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12. |
Let's Go Out
03:28
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LET’S GO OUT
Let’s go out
Past the stream and to the magic swing
That’s the thing we do
And it’s best with you.
Let’s go through tunnels of the leaves and hold my hand love
I understand, love.
We can bring a fruitnic in our knapsack
We could spot the trains and birds we like.
Anything we’d like to do
It’s really true.
Climbed the hill
Searched all morning for the poet’s stone
Never found her, still
Never mind we will.
Will you please
Tell me all your best adventures
Tell me all your jokes too
Why not find the spot we dived in from when
We swam with the cows in dad’s home town they
Lowed with pleasure in the dipping light
And did we ever see a finer sight?
Grateful for the chance to do
All this with you.
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